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A video service team of the Provincial de Cádiz Cartagena recently visited to record part of a documentary about the sinking of the Queen Regent, to be aired in local television Andalusia.

During his stay in the city have recorded locations and resources in the Palace Hall, Naval Museum and Museum of Underwater Archaeology, where he had met with its leaders.

At the Palace Hall have recorded images in the picture who heads the main staircase of Guimbarda Ussel work and which commemorates the wreck of the Spanish Navy ship that killed the late nineteenth century, a hundred marine Cartagena their sphere of influence.

The Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, also participated in the recording of the documentary explaining the consternation caused the tragic event in Cartagena's society at the time, he came to stay for the first time in history the Holy Week processions, as well as the memory keeps alive through the streets dedicated in Cartagena and the district commander of the ship pear, Sanz de Andino, and the table of Guimbarda Ussery, with the shield of the city with black veil and the list of missing persons in a place of honor at the Palace Hall.

The sinking of the Queen Regent is regarded as the most tragic of Spanish naval history in times of peace.

Registered on March 9, 1895, left 420 dead, many of Cartagena.

The cruise ship, whose commander was Captain Francisco Sanz de Andino and Marti, returning from Tangier to Cadiz, after the Moroccan city led to a diplomatic delegation from that country, when he was caught in the waters of the Strait in a storm

And no more was heard of him since he has not reached its destination.

Witnesses reported seeing a capsized off Tarifa, but never found the wreck and no survivors or wreckage.

All men on board perished.

When the news came to Cartagena for sinking the city was dismayed, going so far as to suspend the processions of Holy Week this year for missing three weeks they were in mourning in the city total.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena